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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1862

99 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 5

The Poet in the Coal Pit

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 6 August 1862 · page 4

THE poetic Muse is over a charming companion, and when she leads us through fields and groves with which we are families and in her pleasing style tells us of [?]…

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The A. A. Company and Their Miners

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 9 August 1862 · page 3

THE following draft report of the citizens' committee has been prepared, and has already received the sanction of the majority of such committee. The Mayor's absence…

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Tuesday, August 12. (Before H. Scott, Esq., P.M., J. Bingle, Esq., J.P., and J. Hannell, Esq., J.p.) the A. A. Company and Their Miners

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 13 August 1862 · page 2

THE Court was occupied all yesterday in adjudicating on the case of one of the miners, John Ryan, who was remanded here from Sydney on charge of absconding from its…

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Minmi Colliery

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 16 August 1862 · page 2

AUGUST 11TH, 1862.—A circumstance has transpired here within the last few days which, although at first threatened serious consequences to us as a community,…

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CORRESPONDENCE. "All masters are not tyrants; all miners are not martyrs" To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 16 August 1862 · page 2

SIR.—In reading the above sentence, in one of your [?]ers of last Saturday. It was [?]k with its appropriate truthfulness, but, at the same time, I could not put from me the fact that we have…

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Mining Affairs

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 20 August 1862 · page 2

Here we still regret to have nothing of a satisfactory nature to communicate. The old hands of the A A. Company refuse to accept the ultimates of the managers, and these gentlemen are every…

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The Bradley Colliery Accident—the Ground Bailiff Censured

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 27 August 1862 · page 4

THE adjourned Inquiry into the circumstances attending tho deaths of the seven persons who lost their lives in the Bradley Colliery of Messrs. G. B. Thorneycroft and…

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Banco Court. Dibbs V. the Newcastle Coal and Copper Company

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 3 September 1862 · page 3

The trial of this case, which began on Thursday work, and had already lasted six days, once more lasted the whole day with out being concluded. The evidence…

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Cotton and Coal of New South Wales. (To the Editor of the Times.)

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 3 September 1862 · page 3

SIR—I hope you will allow me to supply an omission in your enumeration this day of the most remarkable products of the different Australian colonies. On Saturday, 17th…

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The Origin of Coal Beds. To the Editor of the Mining Journal

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 6 September 1862 · page 3

Sir,—Your correspondents have recently projected an important subject for discussion in clearly setting forth their views on the origin of our coal fields. Mr. Nicholas Ennor has…

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Lake Macquarie and Its Coal Minks., &c

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 6 September 1862 · page 4

The melancholy event announced in our Melbourne telegram of yesterday, suggests reflections even apart from the awful nature of the catastrophe. A vessel laden with…

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The New Zealand Gold-fields

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 10 September 1862 · page 3

OTAGO.—The news of extensive diggings having been discovered on the Upper Clutha had reached Auckland, and created great excitement. The discoverers, Messrs…

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Miners Meeting

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 13 September 1862 · page 3

ON Wednesday morning last, a large meeting of the above body was held on the green near St John's Church, for the purpose of explaining certain matters which had caused…

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Miners' Association

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 13 September 1862 · page 2

The following has been handed to us by the Chairman of the Miners Union for publication. It is a letter addressed to Messrs. John Turton and Joseph Dransfield, the miners…

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Fatal Colliery Accident at Cowpen

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 20 September 1862 · page 4

An accident occurred on Monday morning, in the North pit, Cowpen Colliery, resulting in the death of of Ralph Delaney, one of the deputies. He was engaged in setting…

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New Zealand. Gold Discovery

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 24 September 1862 · page 3

THE following account of another gold discovery was published in the Colonist Extra ordinary of Saturday:—INVERCARGILL, Septr. 2…

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The Northern Goldfields

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 24 September 1862 · page 3

THE ROCKY RIVER.—I reported, a few weeks ago, that Messrs. Taylor and Co. had been fortunate enough to strike payable gold at Maitland Point, a little way up, the bank…

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Australian Coal

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 27 September 1862 · page 4

TO THE EDITOR OP TUB EMPIRE.—Sir—A few days back the appeared in the columns of a provincial paper, a return to an order of the honourable the House of Commons, dated…

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Life in Colliery Districts (From the Eclectic Review.)

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 4 October 1862 · page 3

The general public out of the mining districts know little or nothing of the hubits, characters, and dicabilities of the men who raise our iorn and our coal. It is true that…

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Life in Colliery Districts. (Continued from last Saturday's issue.)

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 8 October 1862 · page 4

In reference to tho moral condition of the town of Dudley, Mr. Coode says, that every person who remembers the state of the moral condition of its inhabitants when…

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